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In 2021, 62 units directly related to SDG17 were offered across Monash University, with a total enrolment of 3,975 students.
The units highlighted below are a small sample of the units at Monash relating to the Sustainable Development Goals:
Leave No One Behind
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Leave No One Behind is a program designed to support current students and alumni to develop a social business idea that addresses a social inclusion challenge in the local community. It provides participants with an opportunity to harness the skills from their degrees, develop foundational entrepreneurship skills, and orient that towards solving entrenched social disadvantage challenges.
In 2021, the program kicked off with the Social Innovation Summit, a one-day event of inspiring conversations and workshops around the SDGs and social impact with founders of leading social enterprises, including She’s a Crowd and Good Cycles. Sixty students and 15 teams went on to participate in the 10-week program. In 2021, Monash also ran a tailored version of the program with 100 students from a local secondary school.
Master of Environment and Sustainability
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The award-winning Master of Environment and Sustainability is a forward-thinking, interdisciplinary, two-year course that integrates the knowledge needed to mitigate and adapt to global change with sustainability principles. The course focuses on developing a global change knowledge base and a diverse vocational skill set, and provides evidentiary and interdisciplinary approaches to problem solving. Students can choose from five specialisations, and have the opportunity to work in real-world contexts, combining theory and practice, to respond to local and international, corporate, government and social environmental concerns.
Graduate Certificate of Innovation for Sustainability
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The new Graduate Certificate of Innovation for Sustainability is helping learners create innovative solutions to some of the world’s most complex sustainability problems, by providing them with the knowledge, tools and frameworks to implement innovative responses to our most pressing sustainability challenges. Designed for students from a diversity of sectors, ranging from business to the public sector and not-for profit, the units deal with innovation and change on the individual, organisational and systems level, within the context of sustainability.
Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH)
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Monash is one of the principal partners in the Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education (YEAH) Network, a transdisciplinary, multi-institutional network that equips students with real-world experience of collaborative, evidence-based approaches to global environmental sustainability. The YEAH Network develops virtual classrooms at the undergraduate and graduate levels that provide environmental learning through structured and real-life experiences of international negotiations.
MGF5020 – Business Ethics in a Global Environment
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Business Ethics in a Global Environment touches on all 17 SDGs as it encourages students to critically engage with the connections between business and sustainability and inclusion. As Associate Professor Michelle Greenwood explains, the main objective is that students should explore what they believe to be the purpose of business and the values and assumptions embedded in these various purposes. Students are encouraged to come to their own understanding of what they see to be the role and responsibilities of business, and the values that they believe should be pursued.
Bachelor of Science (Hon) - Global Challenges
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The Monash Science Advanced – Global Challenges (Honours) is the first degree of its kind in Australia that pushes the boundaries of science, and uses science to solve the world’s biggest challenges: climate change, conflict, obesity and an ageing population. This undergraduate course is for high-achieving science students who have the drive and passion to use science to influence business, government, the not-for-profit sector and the wider community.
Global Immersion Guarantee
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The Global Immersion Guarantee is a ground-breaking funded study opportunity to work with overseas communities on local solutions to some of the most pressing global challenges. Students are placed at the intersection between the environment, society and technology, and explore how these concepts can influence how we to respond to the human impact on the environment. Despite the program being cancelled due to border closures in 2021, it won an International Education Association of Australia Excellence Award for Best Practice in International Education.
Green Steps
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Green Steps is an award-winning transformational sustainability leadership program, equipping Monash students with the skills, tools and knowledge needed to become effective leaders and sustainability change agents. The program offers innovative and practical sustainability training and consultancy projects for ambitious emerging leaders. Over more than 20 years, the extracurricular program has transformed lives, launched careers and most importantly, created a network of leaders who are now working in organisations to make the world a more sustainable place to live.